Summary
In poker, players form sets of five playing cards, called hands, according to the rules of the game. Each hand has a rank, which is compared against the ranks of other hands participating in the showdown to decide who wins the pot. In high games, like Texas hold 'em and seven-card stud, the highest-ranking hands win.In low games, like razz, the lowest-ranking hands win. The Poker House, subsequently retitled as Behind Closed Doors, is a 2008 American drama film written and directed by Lori Petty, in her directorial debut.The film depicts a painful day in the life of a teenaged girl who is raising her two younger sisters in their mother's whorehouse.The story is based on Petty's own early life during the mid-1970s.
- The house is host to degenerates playing cards, drugging, drinking and whoring. Sarah allows all the activity going on in the 'poker house', because she herself is a major part of it. Agnes seems to be bright in spite of battling conditions to study in and is a talented local basketball hero.
- Film / The Poker House. The Poker House is a 2008 independent drama film, based on the true story of writer/director Lori Petty's childhood. Agnes, played by Jennifer Lawrence, is a 14-year-old high school student. She gets straight A's, works two jobs and is a star basketball player.
- “The Poker House” premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival to great reviews. The film is at once frank and heartbreaking, lithe and hopeful.
- The Poker House is a dramatic independent film starring the young Jennifer Lawrence. As usual, Lawrence's performance was gripping. Personally, I liked The Poker House better than Lawrence's Oscar-nominated role in Winter's Bone, which was also nominated for Best Picture.
- Jan 29, 2018 'the poker house' also known as 'behind closed doors' is a very well written and well acted realistic story about the life that children so often face when one or both parents drinks too much alcohol or comsumes other drugs. Also it touches on the sad reality that some church leaders are very different at home than what they portray at church.
Whoever you are—I have always dependedon the kindness of strangers.
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A few weeks later, Stella cries while packing Blanche’sbelongings. Blanche is taking a bath. Stanley and his buddies areplaying poker in the kitchen, which the stage directions describeas having the same ghastly atmosphere as on the poker night whenStanley beat Stella. Eunice comes downstairs and enters the apartment.Stanley boasts about his own ability to survive and win out againstothers thanks to his spectacular confidence, and Mitch stammersincoherently in angry disbelief.
Eunice calls the men callous and goes over to Stellato see how the packing is going. Stella asks how her baby is, andEunice says the baby is asleep. Eunice asks about Blanche, and Stellasays they have arranged for Blanche to spend some time resting inthe country, but Blanche thinks she is going to travelwith Shep Huntleigh. Blanche emerges from the bathroom briefly,asking Stella to tell any callers that she’ll phone them back shortly.She requests that Stella find her yellow silk suit and its accessories,then returns to the bathroom. Stella tells Eunice that she isn’tcertain she did the right thing, but that there is no way she couldbelieve Blanche’s story about the rape and continue to live withStanley. Eunice comforts Stella, saying she had no choice but todoubt Blanche’s story and continue life as usual with Stanley.
Blanche opens the bathroom door hesitantly, checkingto make sure that the men playing poker won’t be able to see heras she comes out. She emerges with a slightly unhinged vivacityto the strains of the Varsouviana polka. Stella and Eunice behavein a gentle, accommodating manner. Blanche asks if Shep Huntleighhas called, and Stella answers, “[N]ot yet.”
At the poker table, the sound of Blanche’s voice sendsMitch into a daydream, until Stanley snaps him out of it. The soundof Stanley’s voice from the kitchen stuns Blanche. She remains stillfor a few moments, mouthing Stanley’s name, then with a rising hysteria demandsto know what is going on. The women quiet and soothe her, and themen restrain Stanley from interfering. Blanche is appeased for themoment, but frantically anxious to leave. The other women convinceher to wait. They offer her grapes, and she worries about whetherthey have been washed. Blanche starts to leave, but the women detainher again. They manage to hold her in the bedroom by playing onher fear of walking in front of the men at the poker table, sayingshe should wait until the game is over. Blanche lapses into a reverieabout her upcoming vacation, imagining that she will die at seafrom eating a dirty grape with a handsome young ship’s doctor ather side.
The doorbell rings, and Blanche waits tensely, hopingthat the caller is Shep Huntleigh, her savior. In reality, a doctorand nurse are at the door. Eunice returns and announces that someoneis calling for Blanche, saying she thinks it might be Shep. Blanchebecomes tense, and the Varsouviana begins again. When Eunice mentions thata lady accompanies Blanche’s caller, Blanche grows more nervous.She frets again about walking in front of the poker players, butStella accompanies her. The poker players stand uncomfortably asBlanche passes, except for Mitch, who stares at the table. When Blanchesteps out onto the porch and sees the doctor, not Shep Huntleigh,she retreats in fright to where Stella is standing, then slips backinto the apartment.
Poker House Basketball Scene
Inside, Stanley steps up to block Blanche’s way to thebedroom. Blanche rushes around him, claiming she has forgotten something. Theweird reflections and shadows reappear on the walls, and the Varsouvianamusic and jungle cries grow louder. The doctor sends the nurse inafter Blanche. In stage whispers, Stanley advises the doctor togo in, and the doctor tells the nurse to grab Blanche. As the nursespeaks to Blanche, her voice echoes eerily. Blanche panics and asksto be left alone. Stanley says the only thing Blanche could have possiblyforgotten is her paper lantern, which he tears from the lightbulband hands to her. Blanche shrieks and tries to escape. The nurseholds Blanche, who struggles in her grasp.
The Poker House | |
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Directed by | Lori Petty |
Produced by | Stephen J. Cannell Michael Dubelko |
Screenplay by | Lori Petty David Alan Grier |
Story by | Lori Petty |
Starring | Jennifer Lawrence Selma Blair Chloë Grace Moretz Bokeem Woodbine David Alan Grier Sophi Bairley |
Music by | Mike Post |
Cinematography | Ken Seng |
Edited by | Tirsa Hackshaw |
Distributed by | Phase 43 Films |
Release date | |
Running time | 93 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
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The Poker House, subsequently retitled as Behind Closed Doors, is a 2008 American drama film written and directed by Lori Petty, in her directorial debut. The film depicts a painful day in the life of a teenaged girl who is raising her two younger sisters in their mother's whorehouse. The story is based on Petty's own early life during the mid-1970s.[1]
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Plot[edit]
The film focuses on one single day in the life of three abused and neglected sisters, Agnes (age 14) (Jennifer Lawrence), Bee (age 12) (Sophi Bairley), and Cammie (age 8) (Chloë Grace Moretz). Their mother, Sarah (Selma Blair), addicted to alcohol and drugs, has been coerced into prostitution to support her pimp, Duval (Bokeem Woodbine). Sarah is unable to care for the girls, forcing Agnes to take responsibility for her two younger sisters. Sarah’s house has become known as the Poker House, where neighborhood pimps and criminals gather to play poker, as well as buying sex. Agnes believes Duval loves her, as a boyfriend would, despite his abuse towards her mother.
Agnes arrives home very early one morning to tidy the house and wakes Bee, after preparing her paper route for her. As Bee gets ready to leave they reveal that Cammie often stays the night at her friend Sheila's house, and before they left their father, who was a preacher, he used to beat Sarah and the girls. The four fled, and Sarah, struggling to take care of the girls on her own, became a prostitute after meeting Duval.
The day shifts from girl to girl. Little interaction occurs among the three. Bee speaks of moving into a foster home, hoping to be adopted. Cammie spends the day at a bar, making friends with Dolly (Natalie West), the bar owner, and Stymie (David Alan Grier), an alcoholic. Agnes rides through town, talking with a few friends, playing a game of basketball, and picking up a couple of paychecks from her part-time jobs.
Towards the end of the day, Agnes climbs through Bee's window, avoiding the living room, which is full of gamblers, pimps, and drunks. Bee has locked herself in her room, and like Agnes, avoids the downstairs chaos. Agnes makes Bee leave the house, telling her not to come back for a while. She then makes her way into the living room, and a stranger begins to talk to her. He asks her why she is there, and she responds by telling him that this is where she lives and that Sarah is her mother. When the man finds out that Agnes is a star basketball player for her high school team, with an important game that night, the man gives her a sympathetic look and tells her to get out of the house and go to the game, but she ignores him.
Later that evening, Duval and Agnes begin kissing again, Agnes narrates over the entire scene, after a few minutes, Duval then rapes Agnes. As Duval releases her, she runs to the bathroom to clean herself, horrified by the thoughts of the violence and possibility of pregnancy. She is completely traumatized. Her mother enters the bathroom, and as Agnes reaches for her in utter distress, Sarah refuses to touch her, and instead tells Agnes to go to the store to pick up alcohol after reminiscing on Agnes being a handful as a young child, showing intelligence even when she was a one-year-old.
Soon after, Agnes overhears Duval telling Sarah that he will begin pimping and selling Agnes, as well. Agnes threatens to shoot Duval, firing a couple of shots to prevent Duval from leaving, screaming to her mother that he raped her and deserves to be shot for what he does to Sarah, too. Sarah only tells Agnes that she will defend him. Agnes leaves for her basketball game.
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Agnes scores 27 points in the second half alone, a record that lasts for years to come. However, she falls when she scores the last goal, limps to the car, and has a meltdown. She then wipes her tears and puts the horrific events of the night in the back of her mind. She drives off and finds Bee and Cammie at a nearby bridge. The two get in the car, with Agnes not telling her young sisters of events that took place that evening, and instead takes them to get dinner. Bee reveals that she went to the bar after she went to a friend's house and that she found Cammie. Cammie then plays 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough', and the movie closes as the three girls sing together.
At the start of the film credits, Agnes is revealed to have left Iowa to go to New York and become an actress and artist. Some 20 years later, she is shown to have directed the movie, and the movie is the true story of director and actress Lori Petty's childhood.
Cast[edit]
- Jennifer Lawrence as Agnes
- Selma Blair as Sarah
- Chloë Grace Moretz as Cammie
- Bokeem Woodbine as Duval
- David Alan Grier as Stymie
- Danielle Campbell as Darla
- Sophi Bairley as Bee
- Casey Tutton as Sheila
Jennifer Lawrence's father, Gary Lawrence, appears uncredited in the film as the basketball coach of the other team.[2]
Reception[edit]
Critical response[edit]
The Poker House has received mixed reviews from film critics. Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 63% of critics have given the film a positive review based on eight reviews, with an average score of 6.2/10.[3]
During quieter parts of songs, I couldn’t hear the lyrics! I was in shock, how can you have a conversation in a circle of 6 people while a band is playing? In addition to the ridiculously low volume, the sound would go in and out as if I was listening to the concert from the other side of a wall. Ticketmaster avett brothers tickets. Seems unprepared to support the number of people at this concert, wait lines for the bathrooms were 30 minutes and food trucks didn’t have the capacity, speed or inventory to support the crowd.
References[edit]
- ^Rosen, Lisa. 'AT THE MOVIES Lori Petty's hard look'. Los Angeles Times. latimes.com. Retrieved November 15, 2016.
- ^'The Poker House (2008) – Trivia'. IMDb. Amazon.com. Retrieved September 16, 2012.
- ^The Poker House at Rotten Tomatoes
External links[edit]
- The Poker House on IMDb
- The Poker House at Rotten Tomatoes
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